There is no growth in love without intimacy. Intimacy is being open and vulnerable. A willingness to share all that you are with someone. Overcoming the fear of rejection and a willingness to risk loss. We long to know the oneness and unity of all life within us.
Life also requires intimacy. This is why almost everyone seeks a communion through religious beliefs and ideals. We seek and want to establish a living communion with something far greater than ourselves.
We want acceptance in our relationships and nonjudgement so that we can discover the gifts that love can offer.
Love is a treasury of self-discovery, especially when we find it within ourselves. Through acceptance and forgiveness, the barrier of judgement is broken down.
We cannot forgive ourselves if all we know are the mental and emotional bodies of our consciousness. Along with our ego they conspire to seal us in judgements of ourselves and others. Our ego does not know or want forgiveness. Its pride would not allow it.
Our continued journey in healing whether personally within us or with another is dependent on our willingness to see real and true intimacy within and without. If real love is there, forgiveness will be too.
It is too easy to build walls within ourselves when all we know and live by are judgements. It takes a warm and open heart to discover through intimacy the miraculous healing power of love.
Robert